Arun Agrawal

Arun Agrawal
Arun Agrawal
Born	September 20, 1962 (age 61)
Academic background
Education	University of Delhi (BA); Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (MBA); Duke University (MA, PhD);
Academic work
Discipline	Political scientist
Institutions	University of Michigan

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Arun Agrawal (born September 20, 1962) is a political scientist in the School of Natural Resources & Environment at the University of Michigan. He was the editor-in-chief of the scholarly journal World Development. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2018.^[1] Agrawal is the coordinator for the International Forestry Resources and Institutions network.^[2]

Education[edit]

PhD - Political Science, Duke University 1992
MA - Political Science, Duke University 1988
MBA - Development Administration and Public Policy, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1985
BA - History, University of Delhi, 1983 ^[3]

Publications[edit]

Some of Agrawal's work has been published in journals such as Science, Conservation Biology, World Development, and PNAS.^[4] In a publication in Nature, Agrawal explores the positive side of disaster in his case study of a 1998 hurricane in Honduras. According to Agrawal, natural disasters like this set the stage for alternative social trajectories.^[5]

Books[edit]

His best known book is Environmentality: Technologies of Government and the Making of Subjects, published in 2005.^[6]

Previously published books included Greener Pastures: Politics, Markets, and Community Among a Migrant Pastoral People, (1999) and Decentralization in Nepal: A Comparative Analysis (1998).

Reviews[edit]

"Arun Agrawal (in Environmentality) provides a most lucid account of the people-government- forest interplay in the 20th century Kumaon Himalayas in this book.... Arun Agrawal addresses these fascinating questions on the basis, not only of archival research, but significantly, on the strength of extensive long-term fieldwork."—The Hindu^[7]
"This book (Environmentality) aims to promote Arun Agrawal's own neologism - "environmentality" ... This book, too, has hidden its worthwhile arguments in thickets of verbal profusion, which make it hard to see the teak for the forest."--The Times Higher Education^[8]

Books edited[edit]

2001: Agrarian Environments: Resources, Representations and Rule in India. Duke University Press, Durham, ISBN 0-8223-2555-1
2001: Social Nature: Resources, Representations and Rule in India. Oxford University Press, New Delhi, ISBN 0-19-565460-9
2001: Communities and the Environment: Ethnicity, Gender, and the State in Community-Based Conservation. Rutgers University Press, Piscataway, ISBN 0-8135-2914-X
2003: Regional Modernities: The Cultural Politics of Development in India. Stanford University Press, Palo Alto, ISBN 0-8047-4415-7

References[edit]

↑ http://www.nasonline.org, National Academy of Sciences -. "May 1 2018 NAS Election". www.nasonline.org. {{cite web}}: External link in |last= (help)
↑ "Arun Agrawal". International Forestry Resources and Institutions. 2012-12-10. Retrieved 2021-03-29.
↑ "CV Arun Agrawal" (PDF).
↑ "Arun Agrawal | University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability". seas.umich.edu. Retrieved 2021-03-29.
↑ Agrawal, Arun (May 19, 2011). "Economics: A positive side of disaster". Nature. 473 (7347): 291–292. doi:10.1038/473291a. PMID 21593857. S2CID 205064492.
↑ Agrawal, Arun (2005). Environmentality: Technologies of Government and the Making of Subjects. Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0-8223-3480-4.
↑ Gadgil, Madhav (December 12, 2006). "Modernity and Nature". The Hindu. Retrieved 16 July 2012.
↑ Chapman, Graham (September 1, 2006). "If only we could see the teak for the trees". The Times Higher Education. Retrieved 16 July 2012.

[1] ttp://www.nasonline.org, National Academy of Sciences -. "May 1 2018 NAS Election". www.nasonline.org. {{cite web}}: External link in |last= (help)

[2] "Arun Agrawal". International Forestry Resources and Institutions. 2012-12-10. Retrieved 2021-03-29.

[3] "CV Arun Agrawal" (PDF).

[4] "Arun Agrawal | University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability". seas.umich.edu. Retrieved 2021-03-29.

[5] Agrawal, Arun (May 19, 2011). "Economics: A positive side of disaster". Nature. 473 (7347): 291–292. doi:10.1038/473291a. PMID 21593857. S2CID 205064492.

[6] Agrawal, Arun (2005). Environmentality: Technologies of Government and the Making of Subjects. Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0-8223-3480-4.

[7] Gadgil, Madhav (December 12, 2006). "Modernity and Nature". The Hindu. Retrieved 16 July 2012.

[8] Chapman, Graham (September 1, 2006). "If only we could see the teak for the trees". The Times Higher Education. Retrieved 16 July 2012.

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